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Cheryl Bulbach's avatar

Thanks for taking a hail of bullets for us with this one.

Very funny review, but an incomprehensible plot.

What do you suppose it meant- especially the airborne Ugandans?

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

I honestly have no idea. This one kind of broke my brain a little, and I suspect the book, when finished, will be light on Early Oughts Euro Weirdness.

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Carl Salonen's avatar

*tears up query letter about Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre*

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Cheryl Bulbach's avatar

I am surprised. Aside from the fact that Lars von Trier is a misogynistic, animal hating Nazi, I expected better from this genre.

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Carl Salonen's avatar

<<Clonya Hardings>>

That's a knee slapper!

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

insert "I see what you did there.gif"

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Carl Salonen's avatar

<<Her two-toned, black and white color scheme obviously represents Manichaeism, or Cartesian Dualism.>>

You're being Cruella here, Scott.

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

C'mon, Carl. Now you're just showing off.

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Carl Salonen's avatar

<<Meanwhile, people in Uganda are flying without planes>>

Pretty sure this is a leftover from Idi Amin as a mode of transportation: the trebuchet.

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

No but that's the thing...they just bob around. The trebuchet would actually be an improvement--crueler, yes, but at least they'd be making good time!

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Carl Salonen's avatar

Ah, floaters. Not sinkers.

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Carl Salonen's avatar

<<“The heart,” Joaquin says, touching his chest, “That’s in here.”>>

*spit take*

Is this really in the film or is this a Clevengerism (I'm so submitting that to Urban Dictionary) that actually improves the film?

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

As Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies used to say, "All Dialogue Guaranteed Verbatim!" That one is all on the Danes.

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Carl Salonen's avatar

I must see this film. Has Netflix expired yet?

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

I refuse to enable this.

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Carl Salonen's avatar

<<it's on Netflix streaming--but it expires on Sunday, I think.>>

The movie? Or Netflix?

Either one sounds like we'd be Better Off Dead....

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Carl Salonen's avatar

<<Joaquin Phoenix and Clare Danes face Armageddon at the Ice Capades.>>

Girl? Same.

https://tenor.com/bcYpI.gif

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Alice's avatar

This sounds... pretty ghastly. You almost had me at Mark Strong, though. He's such a masterful villain. *sigh* Clearly though, he wasn't in this thing for long.

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

I love him too and felt a bit of hope when he appeared. But he's...not really a factor in how the film plays out, alas.

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